On October 1, 2017, practice management and electronic health record systems updated the code sets for pain medicine. New ICD-10 codes in 2018 allow pain physicians and medical coding outsourcing companies to report spinal stenosis with a higher level of specificity...
Recent reports show that there is no decline in obesity rates in the US. According to a recently released CDC study, the overall rate of obese adults rose from 33.7 percent in 2007 to 39.6 percent in 2016. This is despite the public health campaign to rein in the...
Those interested in sports will be quite familiar with the term “Patellar tendonitis”. Also referred to as “jumper’s knee”, it is a knee injury affecting the patella tendon. It is common in professional athletes, especially basket ball...
The 2018 Medicare final regulations, code updates, and other changes have impacted many healthcare specialties. As of January 1, 2018, there are new codes, revised codes, and updates to coding guidelines for bone marrow procedures and medical coding outsourcing is a...
About 6 million patients seek laceration treatment in emergency departments every year, according to a 2017 American Family Physician report. Primary care physicians also provide urgent laceration treatment. The goal of laceration treatment is to repair a wound safely...
